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Bizarrely, but completely on-brand for Adobe, there’s a bunch of stuff that you can do with paragraph (or box) text layers that is only accessible via the scripting API. For some inexplicable reason, these super useful functions never found their way into the UI. Well, until we came along. Designed to be the perfect companion to the native Paragraph panel, Paragraph Plus adds new functionality with a familiar interface that fits right into your workspace.

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Key features

Vertical alignment

Horizontal alignment is old news. Align text vertically to the top, bottom, or center, or even stretch it to fill the full height of the box.

Auto-fit to height

Choose how you’d like the box height to fit the text content. (Width, sadly, is off the table).

Box position

The text box’s position relative to the layer’s anchor point. Move the box, and the anchor stays put.

Box size

Set the exact width and height of a text box. No messing about with guides or other hacky workarounds.

Padding

Control the inner padding of the text box, with one caveat: the same value applies to all four sides.

First baseline alignment

Control where the first line of text starts. Choose a preset (like x-height or leading), or dial it in yourself.
Every control works live on whatever box text layer (or layers) you have selected, and every change is a normal, undoable step in your After Effects history.

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Requirements

  • After Effects version 24.6 or later
  • An active Paragraph Plus license, activated through the Tack Studio app (see Installing tools)